(R&D Magazine) A series of neutron scattering experiments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and other research centers is exploring the key question about a long-sought quantum state of matter called supersolidity: Does it exist?...2/2

(Oak Ridger) ...DOE and local officials are working together on a plan that will transform hundreds of acres at the old K-25 complex into an industrial park with the resources needed to attract new companies and manufacturing plants, some potentially linked to technologies being developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory...2/1

(PhysOrg) Envirofit International, the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Colorado State University have won a Federal Laboratory Consortium award for excellence in technology transfer for a clean-burning cookstove designed for the developing world...2/2

(WATE) (Video at Link) If you think there's a problem with your utility charges or how your meter's being read, all you may be able to do is call your utility company. However, a program by Oak Ridge National Laboratory aims to change that...1/27

DOE

(Augusta Chronicle) The U.S. Department of Energy will not honor its 2010 offer to help Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division restore a program to monitor radiation levels in Georgia counties near Savannah River Site...2/2

(Knoxville News Sentinel) The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge office is moving forward with what apparently will be the final phase of an agreement with historic preservation parties to include plans to mitigate the loss of the K-25 uranium-enrichment plant, which is being torn down...2/2

State & Regional

(Wall Street Journal Market Watch) Milder weather than last year in the Tennessee Valley Authority's service region drove sales of electricity down 5 percent for the three-month period ended Dec. 31, 2011, compared with the same period last year, TVA said Friday in its quarterly report to the Securities and Exchange Commission...2/3

(CBS News) Today, FBI Director Robert Mueller told the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that he believes "the cyber threat will equal or surpass the threat from counter terrorism in the foreseeable future."...2/2

science & technology

(Science Insider) A movement to boycott scientific publishing giant Elsevier because of the high price of its journals is rapidly gathering steam. Nine days after it started, more than 2600 scientists—including several Field Medalists—have signed a petition at thecostofknowledge.com in which they pledge not to publish papers in Elsevier's journals, nor referee other researchers' studies, or do other types of editorial work for the company...2/2

(Popular Science) Microbiologist Rosie Redfield, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, spent several months trying to reproduce the results of an experiment conducted by a team led by Felisa Wolfe-Simon...2/2

Other Stories

(Popular Mechanics) The oil companies that run the Trans-Alaska Pipeline suggest that if oil flows drop too low, the line could be compromised. But others say that the industry's numbers are wrong and are actually part of a campaign to open up currently off-limits areas like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling...2/1

Out there

(National Geographic) From rabbits to deer to even bobcats, invasive Burmese pythons appear to be eating through the Everglades' supply of mammals, new research shows.
Since the giant constrictors took hold in Florida in 2000, many previously common mammals have plummeted in number—and some, such as cottontail rabbits, may be totally gone from some areas...1/30

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